July 10, 2009

Explore Tranquility Base With New Interactive Apollo 11 Feature

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Caption: Apollo 11 landing site on Tranquility Base. Credit: NASA

Where were you on July 20, 1969? If you don't remember or weren't born yet you can re-live the first walk on the Moon with a new interactive feature on NASA's website.

Listen to the audio, pan and explore the landing site, and go inside the Eagle lunar lander (not a lot of room in there!). Looking around Tranquility Base with the pan feature is a little counter-intuitive (opposite of what you do on Google Maps) but fun, nonetheless.

Look for lots of other fun ways to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 during the next couple of weeks. Google and NASA announced they will be unveiling something exciting on July 20, and word on the street is that it will be Google Moon in 3-D, made possible in part by the newly arrived Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Full virtual reality here:

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/07/10/explore-tranquility-base-with-new-interactive-apollo-11-feature/